On 2008-01-29, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Twan,
>> Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 3:11:45 PM, you wrote:
>>> I think we should ignore the generalization to genericSuperDuperConcatMapMXYZ
>> for now :). On the other hand, Bulat raises a valid point. Adding things to the
>> base library might break some programs, although they will be easy enough to
>> fix. But what do we do with Bulat's point in this specific case? I see two options:
>> i have several hundred one-liners in my Utils.hs. with such speed of
> adding these funcs to the base, you will add only these funcs the next
> 10 years. does this mean that haskell hackers will continue to mutate
> the language these next 10 years? :(
That's the whole point of "avoiding success" -- so we can continue to
make changes.
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Aaron Denney
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